It's Top 10 time on the Firewall & Iceberg Podcast, as Dan and I go back and forth (in, for some reason, snake draft order) on our respective favorite shows of 2012. You've already seen my list, and th...
Happy Wednesday, Boys & Girls!
With the end of the year rapidly approaching, it's time for The Firewall & Iceberg's Best of 2012 Podcast.
You may already know our respective Top 10s either ...
Last week, I published my 2012 Top 10 list — which became one vote of many in HitFix's First Annual Television Critics' Poll — and noted in the introduction that there was a very clear top six for me, and ...
If you were to have asked me last June if 2012 was a good year for movies my answer would have been a definitive "no." Sure, "The Avengers," "Moonrise Kingdom," "Beasts of the ...
If there had to be any trend from my top 10 albums from 2012, the word of the year would be "lean." I admire the understated displays of self-editing. Fiona Apple's album didn't have a note or breath wasted;...
It's been said here and in the podcast a number of times, but I might as well offer it up once more for good measure: 2012 was a pretty good year for movies. I admired a lot. I may not have loved a ton but I certainly...
I almost feel compelled to put Paul Thomas Anderson's much-discussed sixth feature film on the list because the understanding and wielding of craft is impeccable. It goes on a bit, and reminds that you can have too mu...
Every year it's worth noting that a number of the original and adapted screenplays in the hunt for Oscar consideration won't get the extra bump of a nomination from the Writers Guild of America (WGA). Reasons for fail...
Is he or isn't he?
For the last few months, it's seemed like every other entertainment news story was about whether or not
the mysterious baddie played by Benedict Cumberbatch in J.J. Abrams' upcoming "Star ...
After four nominations and three wins for Outstanding TV Series - Drama, maybe the Hollywood Foreign Press Association just felt like "Mad Men" was getting too big for its britches? Maybe the HFPA wanted to ...
